Heartland HQ

[Jeepnokc]

Yeah I’m wondering about the courtyard wall and what that would look like once built. Rand does great work so I don’t think we would be too disappointed.

I hope so. Hope it doesn't turn out like the NE corner of Sheridan and Dewey where the entire corner is just a wall around the backside of the old Holiday Inn.

[Anonymous.]

That building's design is really nice. The modern accents lit up like that look really good.

[gopokes88]

It’s not Paycom, everyone in Steve’s chats has a fantasy that Paycom is gonna move downtown despite having spent tens of millions on their campus

[Anonymous.]

Paycom taking the Sandridge tower would be really good for downtown. But their employees all live in Edmond and N OKC and would be pissed.

[gopokes88]

Paycom taking the Sandridge tower would be really good for downtown. But their employees all live in Edmond and N OKC and would be pissed.

Paycom has spent $50,000,000 building out that campus. They aren’t going to just walk away from that because they want to be downtown, which they don’t.

[gopokes88]

FWIW I heard it’s US Fleet tracking

[dankrutka]

Yeah I’m wondering about the courtyard wall and what that would look like once built. Rand does great work so I don’t think we would be too disappointed.

Rand has very interesting design, but almost always fails at urban design. He's a form over function type of architect so review will be important here.

[jonny d]

FWIW I heard it’s US Fleet tracking

Do they have 100's of office employees?

[Rover]

Rand has very interesting design, but almost always fails at urban design. He's a form over function type of architect so review will be important here.

How does this fit form over function or anti urban critique? It is very clean urban design with a Euro feel....lots of windows for natural light.

[hoya]

I think the design is fine. Actually, I think they almost hit it out of the park with this. It looks great.

I had a little concern about the courtyard wall, but then I went to Google Maps to try and get a better visual for where this is. That courtyard wall is along an alleyway that runs behind the property. The rendering shows a car driving on it, but that's not a regularly used street for traffic. There's virtually zero pedestrian traffic there as it is, and I don't think there are any plans to have storefronts facing that alley. If you're going to put an ugly wall anywhere, that's where you'd do it.

As far as the plaza goes, right now that area is just ugly parking. I can't tell how big the plaza is supposed to be, but you can always add another building there later if the owners decide to. It's an easy fix.

[Teo9969]

Paycom taking the Sandridge tower would be really good for downtown. But their employees all live in Edmond and N OKC and would be pissed.

Sandridge tower isn't really big enough for Paycom anyway.

[Bellaboo]

Do they have 100's of office employees?

I just read where they have 33 employees -

[Anonymous.]

Sandridge tower isn't really big enough for Paycom anyway.

Just went to their wiki... over 2500 employees!? How many of those are in OKC?

[dankrutka]

How does this fit form over function or anti urban critique? It is very clean urban design with a Euro feel....lots of windows for natural light.

I don't know what I was looking at. Lol. The urban design is here. Disregard my last comment.

[dcsooner]

A new entrant in to the market would be more significant. This (US Fleet) would simply shift the deck chairs.

[Pete]

BTW, this design is similar to Chesapeake Building 1 in the middle of that campus, also designed by Rand.

[zefferoni]

I can't tell from the renderings, but I hope there's streetail of some sort along Broadway and 6th.

[PhiAlpha]

A new entrant in to the market would be more significant. This (US Fleet) would simply shift the deck chairs.

[Urbanized]

A new entrant in to the market would be more significant. This (US Fleet) would simply shift the deck chairs.

It's an out-of-state company.

[dcsooner]

It's an out-of-state company.

Great, that would be significant. Thanks

[HangryHippo]

It's an out-of-state company.

You feel good about this actually happening? Steve's article said it could still fall apart, so I'd like to gauge where my optimism should be, lol. Any idea when we'll find out the employer?

[Urbanized]

^^^^^^^
No idea when the tenant would be made public other than certainly (hopefully) only after the deal is secured. Like you mention, in the original article Andy is very clear that the deal is not done yet. The danger in knowing about this type of thing early in the process is the fact that it can be disappointing if it doesn't come to fruition. Another danger is assigning blame if it doesn't. Sometimes deals just don't come together. It's great when they do, and of course creating designs like this are all a part of due diligence when trying to put them together. Let's all keep our fingers crossed.

[Ross MacLochness]

You feel good about this actually happening? Steve's article said it could still fall apart, so I'd like to gauge where my optimism should be, lol. Any idea when we'll find out the employer?

Especially when the article was published on April Fools day. (Not saying this is an elaborate joke, just that it's bad omens and we don't know Rainey Williams)

[DoctorTaco]

^^^^^^^
No idea when the tenant would be made public other than certainly (hopefully) only after the deal is secured. Like you mention, in the original article Andy is very clear that the deal is not done yet. The danger in knowing about this type of thing early in the process is the fact that it can be disappointing if it doesn't come to fruition. Another danger is assigning blame if it doesn't. Sometimes deals just don't come together. It's great when they do, and of course creating designs like this are all a part of due diligence when trying to put them together. Let's all keep our fingers crossed.

For why was this story leaked to press? This was obviously a "press-release" type situation, not some cold-case that Steve cracked on his own. So for what end was this story put to the public? Any guesses?

[ABCOKC]

^^^^^^^
No idea when the tenant would be made public other than certainly (hopefully) only after the deal is secured. Like you mention, in the original article Andy is very clear that the deal is not done yet. The danger in knowing about this type of thing early in the process is the fact that it can be disappointing if it doesn't come to fruition. Another danger is assigning blame if it doesn't. Sometimes deals just don't come together. It's great when they do, and of course creating designs like this are all a part of due diligence when trying to put them together. Let's all keep our fingers crossed.

+1

And when this kind of thing doesn't pan out it inevitably spurs a whole new round of feelings of inadequacy, complaints about the political and economic status quo, etc. I honestly prefer it when we don't know about projects until they're basically already moving dirt.